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  • xerz@soc.masfloss.netX xerz@soc.masfloss.net

    @foone @domi

    In 2026? Why would a kid waste their time knowing this?

    do not underestimate the ability of teenagers to obsess over retro computing

    foone@digipres.clubF This user is from outside of this forum
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    @xerz @domi I mean, I used to be a teenager obsessed with retro computing, so I know.

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    • foone@digipres.clubF foone@digipres.club

      Setting up age verification for my BBS

      It's simple: if you know what a BBS is and manage to connect to it, you're clearly over 18.

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      @foone Nah, you should throw in some safety questions. Maybe an Age-Captcha where someone has to choose the correct logo for TERMINAT.EXE, abort a Zmodem transfer or choose the right EMSI sequence from a choice of three.

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      • foone@digipres.clubF foone@digipres.club

        @xerz @domi I mean, I used to be a teenager obsessed with retro computing, so I know.

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        @foone @domi there's still quite a bunch around tho, even today

        I think you should be legally recognized as an adult if you do that kind of thing tho /s

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        • foone@digipres.clubF foone@digipres.club

          Setting up age verification for my BBS

          It's simple: if you know what a BBS is and manage to connect to it, you're clearly over 18.

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          @foone have you enable Zmodem or do I have to use Xmodem ?

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          • nine@chitter.xyzN nine@chitter.xyz

            @foone You know... even when I had dialup internet access I never once tried to connect to a bbs. huh.

            ...

            feel like i missed out you know?

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            @Nine @foone Yeah, alas. I didn't wanna run up the phone bill

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            • xan@xantronix.socialX xan@xantronix.social

              @xerz @foone @domi I, a teenager in 2003, already owned a fucking NeXTcube lol

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              @xan @xerz @foone that’s so cool wha

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              • weirdtreething@donotsta.reW weirdtreething@donotsta.re
                @domi @foone wish i could say the same
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                @weirdtreething well i know Shit about hacking on firmware and so many more things

                different people, different timelines. that's okay

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                • stormgren@obsidianmoon.comS stormgren@obsidianmoon.com

                  @foone Press ESC twice to continue...

                  Also, if your're old enough for the BBS thing, you probably also need to schedule a colonoscopy.

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                  @Stormgren @foone Interestingly enough, I just read about mailboxes in Taiwan, still active today with more than a million users.... 😳

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                  • domi@donotsta.reD domi@donotsta.re

                    @foone@digipres.club i knew what a BBS was at the ripe age of 12... but you're not a cop now, are you?

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                    @domi @foone I never used any BBSes because my parents wouldn't let me have a modem. They were always worried about me driving the phone bill through the roof and missing important phone calls. When I moved out, BBSes weren't really very interesting anymore because the Internet was exploding.

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                    • foone@digipres.clubF foone@digipres.club

                      Setting up age verification for my BBS

                      It's simple: if you know what a BBS is and manage to connect to it, you're clearly over 18.

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                      #42

                      @foone touché 😆

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                      • foone@digipres.clubF foone@digipres.club

                        Setting up age verification for my BBS

                        It's simple: if you know what a BBS is and manage to connect to it, you're clearly over 18.

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                        #43

                        @foone the people that remember what a BBS is are dying of old age.

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                        • doskel@masto.doskel.netD doskel@masto.doskel.net

                          @domi @foone (ftr this is knowledge that never goes away, i was born in '09 and actively ran a bbs, albeit one over packet radio rather than IP, and i have several friends younger than me who know of them)

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                          @doskel @domi @foone I found out my middle/high school network didn't block Telnet or SSH (because what underpaid grade school IT staff is gonna bother with that?) so I spent a lot of time in like 2016 playing Trade Wars 2002 and such in class lol

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                          • domi@donotsta.reD domi@donotsta.re

                            @littlefox@gotosocial-dev.svc.0x0a.network @foone@digipres.club it's okay

                            this is just why i don't tell people how old I am. i should just adopt some fake truth, it's not like you could tell that i wasn't born in 1992 given the amount of stupid trivia i amassed ,_,

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                            @domi @foone @littlefox "I was using windows 95 when I was 12" puts you even earlier than 1992!

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                            • ingalovinde@embracing.spaceI ingalovinde@embracing.space

                              @domi @foone @littlefox "I was using windows 95 when I was 12" puts you even earlier than 1992!

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                              @IngaLovinde @domi @foone but I also used Windows 95 when I was 12 o.o

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                              • foone@digipres.clubF foone@digipres.club

                                Setting up age verification for my BBS

                                It's simple: if you know what a BBS is and manage to connect to it, you're clearly over 18.

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                                @foone you can also ask them to go and register a CompuServe account using a special link.

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                                • domi@donotsta.reD domi@donotsta.re

                                  @foone@digipres.club i knew what a BBS was at the ripe age of 12... but you're not a cop now, are you?

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                                  @domi @foone

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                                  • littlefox@gotosocial-dev.svc.0x0a.networkL littlefox@gotosocial-dev.svc.0x0a.network

                                    @IngaLovinde @domi @foone but I also used Windows 95 when I was 12 o.o

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                                    @littlefox @domi @foone me too!

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                                    • foone@digipres.clubF foone@digipres.club

                                      Setting up age verification for my BBS

                                      It's simple: if you know what a BBS is and manage to connect to it, you're clearly over 18.

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                                      @foone I connected to BBSes using native ISDN in my teens some time around 2012 or so

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                                      • foone@digipres.clubF foone@digipres.club

                                        Setting up age verification for my BBS

                                        It's simple: if you know what a BBS is and manage to connect to it, you're clearly over 18.

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                                        #51

                                        @foone citadel, one hopes.

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                                        • foone@digipres.clubF foone@digipres.club

                                          Setting up age verification for my BBS

                                          It's simple: if you know what a BBS is and manage to connect to it, you're clearly over 18.

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                                          @foone Ahh, yes. Pepperidge farms remembers giving his mom a heart attack with the bill for a two hour phone call to a now-infamous german BBS in 1987. Also remembers tracking down a captain crunch whistle after the savage & reflectively probably well deserved beating he endured over said bill.

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